Staying with my patent theme for the week, I noticed Etan Horowitz’s interview with Celebration, FL-based Channel Intelligence CEO, Rob Wight. Channel Intelligence recently filed lawsuits against a variety of ecommerce companies, claiming patent infringement on some of their list technology. I don’t know all the details, but I appreciate Rob’s core sentiment: “When someone [...]
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by Dan Rua…just a VC, living vicariously thru entrepreneurs…
Monthly Archives: July 2008
Jul 22
Google’s PageRank Patent in Jeopardy?
John Duffy has written an intriguing article over at PatentlyO about a set of recent cases/decisions putting all software patents running on general purpose computers in question; using Google’s PageRank patent to demonstrate what’s at stake. There’s been a running debate in IP circles whether software patents would hold long-term, and as more online innovation [...]
Jul 19
Gainesville is Titletown: Back-to-Back National Champs — AGAIN!
Just in time for ESPN’s Titletown contest, Gainesville just landed another back-to-back national title to go along with it’s back-to-back NCAA basketball titles, multiple NCAA football titles and reigning Heisman Trophy Winner, Tim Tebow. Gainesville’s Buchholz High School Math Team just won its second consecutive national championship in Sacramento, CA. And, they didn’t just win, [...]
Jul 16
Lead Conversion at the Heart of RichFX Acquisition by ChannelAdvisor
ChannelAdvisor CEO, Scot Wingo, wrote a great post today about their acquisition of RichFX. At first blush, RichFX appears to be all about sexy rich media sizzle (PDF), but Scot’s post zeros in on the meat he’s after: lead conversions. RichFX brings to ChannelAdvisor a stable of top internet retailers, but more importantly, brings a [...]
Jul 02
WSJ/HBR: A Manufactured Long Tail Debate?
A friend of mine forwarded Lee Gomes’s WSJ article questioning Chris Anderson‘s Long Tail theory, referencing a recent Harvard Business Review article by Anita Elberse. Setting aside Lee’s original Long Tail skepticism, possibly because it suggested the blogosphere presented an opportunity to impact journalists at the head (e.g. WSJ columnists?); I emailed the following thoughts [...]
SezWho Announces Partnerships for Growth
Comment, profile/reputation and activity-stream platform SezWho spilled the beans on a few big partnerships today. I was already aware of their SocialSpark partnership, but was glad to see the Entrecard and Creative Weblogging announcements. Allen over at CenterNetworks shared his thoughts here. SezWho is providing a piece of the SocialCMS I yearn for — comment/reputation [...]